Festival of small tourist towns of Russia in Elabuga. Gorokhovets took part in the III Festival of Small Tourist Towns of Russia
On August 6, at the All-Russian Spasskaya Fair in Elabuga, the grand opening of the II Festival of Small Tourist Towns of Russia took place.
The first word of greeting was given to the Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin. Following him, the head of Elabuga congratulated the residents and guests of the city on this event. municipal district Gennady Emelyanov.
President of the Association of Small Tourist Towns (AMTG), Mayor of Uglich Sergei Maklakov expressed admiration for the scale of the Spasskaya Fair, which became a platform for the festival of small towns, calling the level of the fair international.
The Festival of Small Tourist Towns is a large-scale event project designed to become a model for the cultural renewal of small towns in Russia. The goals of the event are to popularize the Russian province and further develop tourism in small towns, create a public platform for discussing problems and strategies for the development of small towns and attract the attention of the federal government to them.
The presentation of the cities included in the AMTG began with the host city - Yelabuga. Then the audience saw performances by artists from Yelets, Kungur and Myshkin, Tobolsk and Gorokhovets, Suzdal, Uglich and Kargopol. The leaders of the named small historical cities at this time went to the Yelabuga settlement, where an alley of fruit trees was planted on Millennium Square.
In the evening on ceremonial closing The festival has announced the city that will host the 2017 event. Suzdal took over the baton from Elabuga.
In conclusion, the festival participants sang a song about small towns in Russia, in which they are called the memory, conscience and wisdom of the Fatherland.
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The festival is intended to become a model for the cultural and tourist renewal of Russia.
The main objective of the festival is to unite small towns on a common platform for the purpose of joint promotion positive image Russian provinces and consolidation of resources for further development tourism.
The theme of the III Festival of Small Tourist Towns is “Small Town Gastronomy”. At the Uglich stand there was a tasting of fermented milk products of the agricultural holding "AgriVolga", Russian cheese of the Uglich cheese-making plant.
The event took place at several venues: a festive city fair, a gala concert and a festive procession of AMTG representatives with the participation creative teams on Trade Square.
A novelty of the festival this year was its design; a new corporate style of the Association of Small Tourist Cities “Great in Small” was presented and adopted. Training seminars on using the new Association brand were held. City stands, stage, videos, booklets - everything was done in uniform style according to the new AMTG concept. Each city has its own unique style, together the cities form the “Constellation of Small Towns of Russia”
At the ceremonial meeting of the festival dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Association of Small Tourist Towns, the new President of the Association was introduced - the Head of the Uglich municipal district - Anatoly Gennadievich Kuritsin.
13 member cities of the Association of Small Tourist Towns took part in the festival. The delegations of the Association’s cities included creative groups, chefs, representatives of folk arts and tourism specialists from city administrations and tourist information centers, as well as business representatives interested in developing the gastronomic brand of their cities.
The business program of the festival included: round table with famous experts in the field of gastronomy, seminar on territory branding, culinary master classes. The program also included a gastronomic competition" Form style in a small town." Uglich was represented at the competition by the cooks of the "Avenue" restaurant, Maxim and Dmitry, who prepared "Pike-perch in the Volga style." The main goal of the competition was to develop and form a gastronomic brand for each city of AMTG and the Association as a whole. The competition included several nominations : the first is the presentation of a hot dish, which in the future could claim to be a signature dish of the city, was associated with the history of the city and was prepared from local products.
The second is the presentation of an apple dessert, which will subsequently be sold in every AMTG city and serve as a unifying brand of the Association. Apple strudel was proposed as an apple dessert in Uglich. The dessert had to be made from apples, with a cost of no more than 80 rubles. The third is “a gastronomic souvenir of the city.” It had to be small in volume and weight, interesting in design and name, non-perishable with low cost, made from local products with their own history. Gingerbread cookies painted with glaze with images of the coat of arms of Uglich and the Chambers of appanage princes became a gastronomic souvenir of Uglich.
Representatives from Yelets, Kargopol, Myshkin, Kungur, Gorokhovets, Azov, Solikamsk, Tarusa, Yelabuga, Borovsk, Uglich, Tobolsk and Suzdal took part in the competition.
Vice-President of the Association of Small Tourist Towns Igor Kekhter introduced the chairman of the jury Olga Syutkina, a culinary specialist and culinary historian.
Russian cuisine is not just about sitting down and eating,” said Olga Syutkina. - It is rich and diverse, like the territory of Russia.
Olga Syutkina and her husband Pavel are not only the authors of the series cookbooks. Recently in Paris culinary competition gourmets they took second place. The jury also included Sergei Tkachev, a brand chef at the Academy of Restaurant Business, who works in Rybinsk at the marina restaurant of the same name and the owner of his own cheese factory, and Leonid Gelibterman, the presenter, President of the International Ethno-Gastronomic Center, Vice-President of the Federation of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers of Russia.
By the end of the first festival day, the results for all three nominations were summed up. The chefs from Kargopol won in the “Main Dish” category with pike and blueberry pie. In the Desserts category, the winners were Suzdal residents Yuri Kovalchuk (chef of the Ogurets restaurant) and brand chef Maxim Rybakov (Pushkarskaya Sloboda hotel complex). Suzdal also won in the Gastronomic Souvenir category.
As part of the festival and celebration of the 10th anniversary of AMTG, representatives of the official delegation of cities laid out an apple orchard “10 years of AMTG” on the territory of the Spaso-Efimiev Monastery, and the Association of Small Tourist Towns received gratitude from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for the development of tourism in small towns of Russia. The letter of gratitude was presented by Deputy Minister of Culture A.Yu. Manilov at the 5th Congress of Mayors of Small Towns in Suzdal.
13 creative groups took part in the gala concert of the festival. Uglich presented dance group"Confetti". At the closing ceremony of the festival, the city that will host the 2018 event was announced. The city of Tobolsk took the baton from Suzdal.
The Festival of Small Tourist Towns is a large-scale event project designed to become a model for the cultural renewal of small towns in Russia.
The project was organized by the Association of Small Tourist Towns with the support of the Ministry of Culture Russian Federation. This year the festival was held in Suzdal from June 16 to 18, 2017, where participants discussed the prospects for the development of provincial cities, including issues of attracting tourists. The main focus of the holiday was gastronomic brands and souvenirs from the Golden Ring.
The delegation of the city of Gorokhovets was headed by the head of the administration of the Gorokhovets district, Alexey Alekseevich Bubela, who actively took part in the V anniversary Congress of Mayors of Small Towns, on the topic “Small towns - big culture.” Alexey Alekseevich made a report on cultural life of the city of Gorokhovets and on the implementation of projects in preparation for the celebration of the 850th anniversary of the city. 
Particular attention at the festival was paid to gastronomic tourism and Russian cuisine. As part of the festival, a gastronomic competition “Corporate style in a small town” was held, in which Anna Evgenievna Prokhorova, director of the Zhemchuzhina restaurant, took part.
In the category “Gastronomic souvenir of the city”, Gorokhovetsky gingerbread souvenirs were presented, old recipes which were revived in the restaurant. The Zhemchuzhina restaurant was awarded a diploma for preserving traditions. The festival program was very intense, several platforms operated simultaneously, where gastronomic competitions, educational seminars, master classes, and exhibitions presented the tourism potential of AMTG cities. The potential of the city of Gorokhovets was presented by the tourist information center. 
In a costumed festive procession through the city of Suzdal and on grand opening festival with a presentation of our city folk ensemble songs "Razdolie".
An exhibition-fair of folk crafts and master classes on decorative and applied arts were held on the Trade Square of the city of Suzdal. Gorokhovets products and souvenirs, which were presented by craftsmen and specialists of the inter-settlement House folk art and crafts, were very popular not only among local residents, but also among foreign guests from China and England.
On the closing day, according to festival tradition, the laying of the apple orchard. The symbol of the festival was solemnly handed over to the city of Tobolsk ( Tyumen region) and the IV Festival of Small Tourist Cities of Russia in 2018 year will pass exactly there.
Based on materials from the Department of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Gorokhovetsky District.
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